Fertilizer-distributer.



Patented July 4, |899.

E. J. CQHSEB. FERTILIZER DISTHIBUTER.

(Applicatrion filed Feb. 2l, 1899.)

(No Modem VIII Attorney P Tins am PHOTQLITHQ. WASHINGTON. nA 0,;

UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDSON J. OORSER, OF MAOEDON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OFONE-IIALF TO GEORGE IV. KIRKPA'IRIOK, OF SAME PLACE. y

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBU'I'IER.V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,983, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed February 2l, 1899. Serial No. 706,408. (No model.)

T0 LZ-Z wwT/Y/ il? Nw/Z/ @WwW/ff.' The feed ,wheels or carriers arranged with- Be it known that I, EDsoN J. CORSER, -of in the receptacle embody the central circular Macedon, in the county of Wayne and State raised portion 6, having at the lower edge the of New York, have invented certain new and radially-extending arms 7, the `outer ends of 5 useful 'Improvements in Fertilizer-Distribu which latter are connected by the rim or ring 55` ters; and I do herebydeclare the following to S, as shown. These arms are cut away at be a full, clear, and exact description of the their lower forward edges, as` shown at 60, saine, reference being had to the accompany- Fig. 6, and, as will be described, form a caring drawings, forming a part of this specitirier for lefficiently carrying the fertilizer Io cation, and to thereference-numerals marked around and allowing it to pass out of lthe dis- 6o thereon. i charge-aperture 4 in the base-plate into suit- My present invention relates to devices for able spouts or other conducting devices. At feeding pulverulent material,'such as fertilithe forward side of the hopper or receptacle zer, and particularly to devices 4applied to is arranged'an inclined cover or partition,

15 grain-drills for this purpose, although capaconstructed in the present instance of sepa-v 6529V ble of use for other purposes; and it has for rate removable sections or plates 9, the up- 3 its object to improve the construction of the per edges being let into the side of the hopy feed Wheel or carrier and the means for coper and secured by thumb-nuts 90 and the operating therewith to regulate the quantity lower edges engaging and being supported 2o fed or supplied by it; and to these and other upon the lugs vl0 on the ends of curved ribs 7o ends it consistsin certain improvements herell, formed upon the bottom 'plates 2. The inafter fully described, the novel features belower edges of the'plates 9 extend down to the ing pointed out in the claims at the end of this tops of the raised port-ion of the feed-wheels specication. and prevent said tops from carrying the fer- Az 5 In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of tilizer behind the cover-plates. As the feed- 75 a hopper or receptacle of a fertilizer attachwheels are rotated in the direction of the arment for grain-drills and embodying my imrows the arms thereon, in connection with the provements, portions of the shields or coverring connecting them, constituting a horizonplates being broken away to show the contally-movable perforated carrying portion,

` 3o struction of the parts; Fig. 2, a vertical secoperate to carry the fertilizer beneath the 8o tion taken on the line a; a: of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a cover-plates and around to the discharge-apperspective sectional view taken on the line erture in the bottom, through which it may y y of Fig. l 5 Fig. 4, a rear view of a portion be allowed to fall, or, if desired, to be more of the hopper, showing the gate-adj usting deor less `forcibly knocked down by the hammer 3 5 vices; Fig. 5, a sectional view taken on the or ejector 12, pivoted, as usual, upon the bot- 85 line e' z of Fig. 3; Fig. 6, a sectional view of tom plate and projecting ,over said aperture. one of the arms of the feed wheel or carrier. The lower face of this hammer is beveled, and

Similar reference-numerals in the several it rides upon the rim of the feed-wheel, as in figures indicate similar parts. Fig. 2, but is lifted by the fingers of arms 7 r io l indicates the usual vor any suitable hopand allowed to drop between said arms. 9o per or'receptacle for containing they material The feed wheel or carrier having the arms to be fed, said hopper being in the present connected at their outer ends by the rim or instance connected to or forming part of the ring carries the fertilizer around to the disordinary grain-box of a grain-drill, the botcharge-oriiice, as distinguished'from the push- 45 tom thereof being formed, as usual, of sepaing or stirring operation accomplished by the 95 rate plates or sections 2, each having the cenfeed-wheels heretofore in use,A provided with tral aperture surrounded by the depending radial arms or stirrers only. By beveling or tubular boss 3, and the discharge-aperture 4, cutting away the lower forward edges of the arranged over the chute or tube 5. (Shown arms 6 fertilizer is cut out, when, asT some- 5o in dotted lines.) times happens, it is packed solidly in the hop- Ioo per, and this construction also renders the pockets formed between the arms self-clearing, as will be readily understood.

The maximum quantity of fertilizer carried around by the feed-wheel is determined by the height of the central raised portion, and in order to reduce the quantity and enable any desired amount to be fed I provide each feed-wheel with a gate 13, sliding vertically on the under side of the' plates 9 and guided by flanges or lugs 14, as shown in Fig. 5, said gates being provided with lugs on the lower rear side,between which projects the edge of a bar or wing 16, hinged at 17 to the side of. the hopper 'beneath the plates 9, so that when the bar is swung on its hinge the gate will be moved up or down to allow more or less material to be moved by the wheel. This construction is simple and effective, as it allows the gates and covers, which are simple castings and do not require accurate tting, to be readily placed in position and to be removed and repaired when desired.

All the feed-wheels and gates in the receptacle are similar, and a single bar o'r wing 16 is preferably provided to coperate with all the gates, so as to operate them simultaneo usly, and is itself pivoted to a link 18, ex-

' tending through the hopper-bottom, connected to a lever 19, pivoted at 2O to a bracket on the hopper and preferably arranged near the center of thehopper or machine; The forward end of the lever projects through an aperture in a link' 21, pivoted to a bell-crank lever 22 on the rear side of the hopper, the upper end of therlever having means, as a pin 23, for operating it, and said end cooperating after the manner of an index with a scale 24, the marks of which latter preferably indicate the number of pounds of fertilizer that will be sown to the acre. As the index and scale are placed on the rear of the hopper and at or near the center thereof the operator, who' instance to provide each of them with a central depending stem 25, having a cross-pin 26 and passed into asocket formed in a tubular slotted extension 26X on the bevel-gear 27, extending up through the boss 3 in the baseplate, said gears 27 being driven by gears28 on the feed-shaft 29, supported in brackets 30 and operated by any suitable mechanism.

It is not absolutely essential to the operation of my feed-wheel that the raised portion at the center be integral ormove with the arms and ring or that it be of any particular diameter; but I prefer that it be large enough, so that the arms will have sufficient movement to carry a proper quantity of material around to the discharge-orifice in the bottom as the wheel is rotated.

As far as the broad features of the invention are concerned it is immaterial what kind of a gate is used to regulate the feed of material or where with relation tothe length of the hopper the gate-operating devices are located.

By employing the single pivoted bar or wing' operating all of the gates the parts are simplified and the adjustments may be readily accomplished from the center of the machine, and a single aperture in the bottom of the receptacle is required for the passage of the link 18 or similar operating device.

In the constructionshown herein it will be noted that the parts are-simple castings and may be' readily put together without requiring special fitting or securing bolts, thereby facilitating both construction and repair.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a device for feeding pulverulent material, a rotary feed wheel or carrier embodying the raised central portion, the arms at the lower edge thereof, and the ring or rim 'connecting the outer ends of said arms.

2. In a device for feeding pulverulent material,the rotary feed wheel or carrier embodying the raised central portion, the arms at the lower edge thereof having the lower edges beveled or cut away, and the ring or rim connecting the outer ends'of said arms.

3.4 In a device for feeding pulverulent material,the rotary feed wheel or carrier embody-` ing the raised central portion,'the arms at the lower edge thereof, and the ring connecting them, in combination with the movable gate for regulating the quantity of material carried by the wheel.

4. In' a device for feeding pulverulent material, the rotary feed wheel or carrier having the raised central portion, the arms thereon, and the ring connecting them, in combination with a gate movable above the arms and co operating with the side of the raised portion of the Wheel.

5. In a device for feeding pulverulent material, a feed wheel or carrier having the radial arms and the ring connected to the outer ends of said arms.

6. The combination withthe hopper having the aperture in the bottom, the feed-wheel having the radial arms, and the ring at the outer ends of the arms, of the ejecting-hammer extending over the arms and above the discharge-aperture, and restingupon the ring on the feed-wheel.

7. The combination with the receptacle, the feed-wheel therein having the horizontallymovable and perforated carrying portion, of

the vertically-adjustable gate extending over the carrying portion of the feed-wheel.

8. The combination with the receptacle, the cover therein, the feed-wheel having the horizontally movable` and perforated carrying portion passing beneath the cover, and the central raised portion, of the vertically-movable gate extending over the carrying portion of the Wheel and coperating with the raised portion thereof.

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9. The combination with the receptacle, the cover therein, and the feed-Wheel having the horizontally-movable and perforated cari-yin g portion passingbeneath the cover, of the gate sliding on the cover and extending over the carrying portion of the Wheel, and means located beneath the cover for actuating the gate.

l0. The combination with the receptacle, the cover therein, and the feed-Wheel having the horizontally-movable and perforated carrying portion passing beneath the cover, of

the gate sliding on the cover and extending over the carrying portion of the wheel, and

the pivoted plate arranged beneath the cover and engaging the gate.v v

1l. The combination with the receptacle,

and a series of feed-Wheels operating therein, l each having a horizontally-m ovin g perforated carrying portion, of vertically adj ustable` gates coperatin g with said Wheels, and a pivoted plate or bar engaging the gates and caus-Y ing their simultaneousoperation.

`l2. The combination with the receptacle, y

and a series of feed-Wheels therein, having the horizontally-m ovable perforated carrying portions ot' a series of movable gates copely'ating with the feed-*Wheels to regulatethe quantity of material fed, a pivoted plate or bar engaging and operating all said gatessimultanef ously,l and lneans for operating said plate.

l 13. The combination with the receptacle, a series of feed-Wheels therein, the `cover ex-v 15. The combination with the receptacle,

'and the feedfwheel operating therein'ha'vin-g the central Araised portion and th'e horizontally-extending arms connected at the outer Iend s,`oi' the vertically-movable gate extending from the central raised portion tothe outer ends of the ,arms on the'feed-.Wheel 16,. The combination with the receptacle and the cover-plate therein, having the guide,-` tlanges on the rear side, and the gate sliding v between said guides, of the feed-wheel hav ing the horizontally-extending carrying portion and the pivoted b ar beneaththe coverd .platefor operating the gate.

EDSONl J. CORSER.

W'itnesses:

f W. R'WHYLAND, HENRY ALLEN. 

